The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-31
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE late Mrs. Dinah Mulock Craik is figuring
in a Western newspapers obituary as the wife
of John Halifax
SUSAN B. ANTHONY is making a thorough
canvass of Kansas in the interest of woman
suffrage, speaking at all the principal towns
BISHOP COKE says that church member who
pays 500 year for an opera-box and 800 a
year to support the church has badly mixed no
tions of Christian duty.
DR. BUIssoN, of Paris claims to cure hydro
phobia by hot baths often repeated. He makes
the patient remain continually in a hot room,
and tie baths are made as hot as 142 degrees.
Miss ROSE CLEvELANDs salary as teacher in
the high-class school for young ladies in New
York is said to be higher than that paid to any
American woman except the stars on the stage.
The further .he oyster is transported from
the seaboard the worse the treatment it suffers
before being eaten. In the far West it is con-
sidered proper to sprinkle the oyster with black
pepper and food it with claret
YOUNG man in Coppersville, Mich. went to
the county clerk to apply for marriage license
the other day and embarrassed that he
forgot the name of his affianced and was obliged
to GO out on the street and look up
who knew her before he could secure the docu-
menr.
THE eccentric Mrs Emmons, of Washington
turned up in the role of pu bile reader at an in
terror Maryland town, the other evening, and
was greeted a
While reading "a Soliloquy." which she wrote
when only fifteen years of age. she burst into
tears and was led from the stage
"WHY did not God answer fervent prayer in
the prohibition contest in Michigan and Texasg'
is a question now anxiously asked in prohibition
newspapers. In the New York Witness the Rev.
D. 0. Van Slyke says that God must first bless
means for educating the people, and that this
requires time and opportunities"
SENoRITA MATILDE MoNToYA Is the first
Mexican girl to become doctor. committee
of young men of the City of Mexico got up a bull
fight in honor of her courage. and devoted the
proceeds to the purchase of books and instru-
ments for her. In the bull fight two of the
toreros were hurt, one of them seriously.
ONE of the brightest looking little schoo.boys
in Washington is of a secretary of the
Chinese legation. The young mandarin wears
a magnificent costume Oriental in character,
and with his school hooks under his forms
a striking and interesting picture. He has I'M
derstood English only year, but is making rap
id progress in his education.
GEN. GRANTS youngest son, Jesse r. Grant,
has started for California to look after certain
mining properties in which he has become inter
ested through Julius Lezynsky. Mr.. Lezynsky
is Pole, who has made money in Pacific coast
speculations He accompanies Mr.. Grant on
his Western trip Within the last half year
Messrs. Lezynsky and Grant have bought out
five California gold-mines. and placed them on
the market in some shape or other.
SENATOR HAwLEY and Miss Horner will be
married in Philadelphia some time in Novem-
Der. After their wedding they will spend few
weeks at the home of Charles Dudley Warn err
in Hartford. Conn. Hiss Horner has been Wis
itng in Hartford, recently. and has made MANY
warm friends in that city by her pleasing man
ners and bright intellect Senator Hawley and
his fancee make a handsome, robust pair, and
will be very popular in the social circles of
Washington this coming season.
THE vestbue doors in Chauncey M. De-
pew's New York home have two large stained
glass cathedral panes. On one is painted fair
faced and brilliantly -robed woman, with the in
scription underneath. welcome the coming
and on the other is equally pleasant faced
image, at the bottom of which is ''Speed the
parting guest" Unlike the other figure fire.
cuently seen in comic papers, the right foot of
the image that speeds the parting guest" does
not haunt the region under the parting guests
coat tails.
AT Kansas City cat and her litter of kittens
had nest under pile of lumber. All of the
kittens except one were killed in some mys.eri-
manner. The other evening bull dog was
passing by the cats hiding place, when he was
suddenly attacked by multitude of cats-fully
one hundred, according to eye-witnesses He